{"id":382,"date":"2025-10-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:00:00","slug":"federal-spending-cuts-weigh-on-dc-office-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Federal Spending Cuts Weigh on DC Office Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/adelya-almetova-2258751\/dc-office-midyear\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>The first half of 2025 was disrupted by steep federal cutbacks in jobs, contracts, and grants.<br \/>\n Roughly 6,000 federal jobs were lost, alongside a 12% reduction in contract and grant spending.<br \/>\n The government is accelerating its portfolio contraction, weakening office demand.<br \/>\n Macroeconomic volatility compounds uncertainty, keeping leasing activity subdued.<br \/>\n Still, stabilizing trends and growing optimism for 2026 suggest a gradual recovery.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first half of 2025 was disrupted by steep federal cutbacks in jobs, contracts, and grants. Roughly 6,000 federal jobs were lost, alongside a 12% reduction in contract and grant spending. The government is accelerating its portfolio contraction, weakening office demand. Macroeconomic volatility compounds uncertainty, keeping leasing activity subdued. Still, stabilizing trends and growing optimism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}